The pit
By: Illustrated by Douglas Hall
Contributors: Hall, Douglas, 1931- illus
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Family life; Family; Fiction
Description: A "tough and scruffy" youth, considered to be no good and likely to end up like his father, an alcoholic, is charged with a school theft, refuses to tell on the actual thief, and is only cleared when his own rebelliousness against his father and the comments of a lonely old woman attract village attention.